Super Server Bonanza

[tgreer]

Hi Guys

Going to start clearing these servers out shortly, so there's a bundle available for bidding on... 

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Super_Server_Bonanza 

Bids here: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/SuperServerBonanzaBids

Get your bids in soon.

Thomas

[Martin]

Any chance we could hurry this along a bit, when the quiet room is busy it makes it really hard for people with long legs when there are giant servers under the table.

[tgreer]

This is why I've promoted it one last time before I start actioning
it.

[Martin Klang]

I'm putting my DL380 bid up to £80!

/m

[tgreer]

Good :)

Last bids by no later than Sunday 22nd July 2012 at 21:00 please
people, so we can start deciding and dishing out.

[Big Will]

Wondering what the situation is with the auction, as I am in a good position to start making use of the extra resources a server would provide.

Cheers

[SP00kY]

Wondering if there are any updates on this? Seems to have dropped off the list and the wiki page hasn't been updated.

[tgreer]

The HPs have gone bar 1 DL360 G5... Myself and Simon are currently sorting out the IBMs/Suns...

[tgreer]

Hi All

We have a load of suns left over. Is anyone interested? They're as they are, not mixing and matching parts, but if you're interested in one in exchange for a donation please let us know before we start ebaying them next week.

Thomas

8 of   SUN     x4600   8 socket Opteron, some with 2 CPUs, some with 4 CPUs, some 2.4GHz, some 2.8GHz

1.     Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz         16GB

2.     Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz         16GB

3.     Sun x4600       2 * Dual 2.4GHz         16GB

4.     Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz         16GB

5.     Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz         16GB

6.     Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz         16GB

7.     Sun x4600       2 * Dual 2.4GHz         16GB

8.     Sun x4600       2 * Dual 2.4GHz         16GB

On Saturday, 14 July 2012 00:03:37 UTC+1, tgreer wrote:

[Ian Henderson]

What's the etiquette here. Are we allowed to place a higher bid on something already bid for?

I'm interested in one of the 128 gb biggies for a data crunching project

Ian Henderson (Thumper)

[Kimball Johnson]

How many U are they?

K

[tgreer]

They're 4U

[Kimball Johnson]

Thought they might me, next up from the X4500 'Thumper' Is there any
disks in them?

[tgreer]

WRT the Suns, theres no bids yet... WRT IBMs we're sorting out what we have. Simon wants to use 2 of them to virtualise for in the space.... so that leaves us with 2 IBMs left, and we're just sorting out the RAM. Machines 6 and 12 IIRC are the 2 IBMs that will be available.

[Tim Reynolds]

Are they these chaps:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.x4600/819-4342-18/html/z40007e81010242.html
?

[Kimball Johnson]

Which on further inspection are nothing like the Thumper, 20 disks too few

[tgreer]

We'll need to check the disks. There are disks available...

[Big Will]

I've put in bids on number 6 and 12.

[Mike]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:55:01AM -0700, tgreer wrote:
> Hi All
>
> We have a load of suns left over. Is anyone interested? They're as they
> are, not mixing and matching parts, but if you're interested in one in
> exchange for a donation please let us know before we start ebaying them
> next week.
>
> Thomas
>
> 8 of SUN x4600 8 socket Opteron, some with 2 CPUs, some with 4 CPUs, some 2.4GHz, some 2.8GHz
>
> 1. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 2. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 3. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB
>
> 4. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 5. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 6. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 7. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB
>
> 8. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB
>
>

What is the suggested donation?

Mike.

[tgreer]

There is no suggested donation, so just donate what you feel they're worth.

[Ian Henderson]

Are any of the IBM's still available?

Also, Is this an Auction i.e. highest bidder wins or is is it first bidder wins?

Ian Henderson (Thumper)

On Saturday, 14 July 2012 00:03:37 UTC+1, tgreer wrote:

[Big Will]

It was inside a time limit, and I had the final bid on 6 & 12.

On Monday, 16 July 2012 18:47:23 UTC+1, tgreer wrote:

Good :) 

Last bids by no later than Sunday 22nd July 2012 at 21:00 please 
people, so we can start deciding and dishing out. 

People are now bidding higher values after the event e.g  Bid 14.  However, I don't think this should be an allowed bid, as it is after the auction time ended.

[David Murphy]

bidding it items which sold before the cutoff date ya. they've already been sold.

for the stuff which hasn't already been bid on like the sun servers it seems fine

[David Murphy]

Also should I edit the wiki or is here ok? I'd like to bid £50 for one of the

Sun x4600       4 * Dual 2.8GHz

Servers

[Mark Steward]

Please edit the wiki - it's nobody's job.

Mark

[tgreer]

I've updated the Wiki of servers allocated to bids. I'll sort these servers out tomorrow and label them up for people.

Regards

Thomas

[Martin Dengler]

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 03:08:38PM +0100, Mark Steward wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, David Murphy <murphy...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Also should I edit the wiki or is here ok? I'd like to bid £50 for one of
> > the
> >
> > Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz
> >
> Please edit the wiki - it's nobody's job.
>
> Mark

I'd like to mop-up the rest of the Suns for GBP 50 or similar price
unless anyone wants them for more worthy causes (by all means, I will
step back).../me has checked - four free now, editing the wiki now.

Martin

[Jasper Wallace]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, tgreer wrote:

> Hi All
> We have a load of suns left over. Is anyone interested? They're as they are, not mixing and matching parts, but if you're
> interested in one in exchange for a donation please let us know before we start ebaying them next week.
>
> Thomas
>
> 8 of SUN x4600 8 socket Opteron, some with 2 CPUs, some with 4 CPUs, some 2.4GHz, some 2.8GHz
>
> 1. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 2. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 3. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB
>
> 4. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 5. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 6. Sun x4600 4 * Dual 2.8GHz 16GB
>
> 7. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB
>
> 8. Sun x4600 2 * Dual 2.4GHz 16GB

This list is definatly wrong (which is why i started the 2nd table on the
wiki), the machines arn't labeled as to which is which anyway. We'll need
to get the machine that went to emfcamp back as well.

P.S. to those of you bidding £50 on these things : you are taking the
piss! - look on ebay for machines with the same specs to see what they are
worth...

I think we should ebay the lot, unless someone has a compleling use for
one of the for a cause the hackspace would like to support, and i've not
seen one so far...

P.P.S. we need to reset the ilom/ipmi stuff as well, it tries to
talk to there previous owners networking stuff!

> On Saturday, 14 July 2012 00:03:37 UTC+1, tgreer wrote:
> Hi Guys
> Going to start clearing these servers out shortly, so there's a bundle available for bidding on... 
>
> http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Super_Server_Bonanza 
>
> Bids here: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/SuperServerBonanzaBids
>
> Get your bids in soon.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>

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[Martin Dengler]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:15:07PM +0100, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> P.S. to those of you bidding £50 on these things : you are taking the
> piss! - look on ebay for machines with the same specs to see what they are
> worth...

To save others time...that's true based on listed prices - they are in
the 2-4000GBP depending on specs (that are a bit better spec'd than
the ones in the Hackspace, but not by thousands of pounds)...however a
search for completed listings shows nothing selling at those prices...

> I think we should ebay the lot, unless someone has a compleling use for
> one of the for a cause the hackspace would like to support, and i've not
> seen one so far...

I agree that seems the best use of the kit, as there have been no bids
in the thousands. I'll withdraw my bids.

Martin

[James Harrison]

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Hadn't spotted the cut-off, so my bad on #14 - my apologies! Feel free
to ignore it unless it's helpful not to.

As for the eBay route - I think that's a good approach for the space if
someone's up for doing it. Space members (for the most part) are
unlikely to be able to provide competitive bids against eBay purchasers
so it will probably produce more funds to the space - £50 bids on stuff
like the 128GB RAM boxes is rather taking the mick, mind you. I'd
rather give the space some cash for the machines than see them binned
for taking up space, though, and if memory serves it was a lot of
effort to get the last server auction organised and done.

The completed listings not showing anything will be due to running
costs - most of these boxes draw in excess of a kilowatt under load,
which is about 3-4 times what even fairly cheap similarly powerful
machines will manage these days. No commercial outfits want to run
these so the only people buying them will be hobbyists, edge-case
commercials/non-profits (people with free electricity) and that's about
it. The last auction had much more reasonable machines which do
actually sell fairly regularly on eBay - these are all fairly
large/specialist boxes.

If an eBay auction can be done then it'll certainly benefit the space
as a whole more, excepting in the cases where projects aim to help
members (ie the virtualization projects etc). I'd rather see something
akin to the last auction where HS members got first dibs then the rest
went to eBay. Seems like the best of both worlds.

Cheers,
James Harrison

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[Monty]

To further Jasper's point, people "bidder" for these machines should note that all proceeds will be going directly to the Hackspace; thanks to efforts of Simon (as well as a few others). By not providing reasonable donations for the value of the hardware you trying to claim you are severely depriving the Hackspace of much needed monies that would allow us to move to a larger location. For further details please check out The LHS' Cost of Hacking http://londonhackspace.github.com/propaganda/posters/cost-of-hacking/

[David Murphy]

Fair enough.

I just went with similar to the amounts I saw above and in the earlier auction.

[tgreer]

After discussing with Simon, unless there are any decent projects looking for the hardware, we'll be putting the servers on ebay, as this is the best source of income for the space.

If you have any worthy projects you feel could use the server then feel free to email me directly, and it'll be discussed with the relevant people.

[Simon]

I have a possibility of 5 more IBM x3950m2 with 128G RAM and quad core 2.4GHz machines that maybe available

I should find out this week if I can get them
Is there enough interest in them?

If so, they will have to be out of here on friday so transport will be required - can any drivers with a car capable of taking 0.25 Tons and 20RU of volume please be on standby

[Martin Klang]

awesome, let's ebay them - I'm willing to help.

cheers Simon,

/m

[Tim Storey]

ah that sounds familiar. It was quite fun last time.

I'll help too…

\t

[Jon Fautley]

On 17 September 2012 13:26, Simon <skl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If so, they will have to be out of here on friday so transport will be
> required - can any drivers with a car capable of taking 0.25 Tons and 20RU
> of volume please be on standby

If the hivemind decide these are good for ebaying/the space (I'd think
they were) then I've got a ZipCar membership and can get a van to move
the servers. It would need to be after working hours (post ~4pm)
though. Just let me know

Cheers

Jon

[tgreer]

I'm happy to ebay same as I'm doing with the Suns... As long as nobody objects to them being in the space for the time being...

[Jasper Wallace]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, tgreer wrote:

> I'm happy to ebay same as I'm doing with the Suns... As long as nobody objects to them being in the space for the time being...

One side effect of clearing out the emfcamp storage is that we'll have a
rack in the space, so if we can hang on to it until we get into unit 22
(if thats happening) we can rack up all the smp enabled ibm's and connect
them up and then have a very big machien to play[1] with :P

[1] and run up the power bill.

> On Monday, 17 September 2012 14:15:53 UTC+1, Jon Fautley wrote:
> On 17 September 2012 13:26, Simon <skl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If so, they will have to be out of here on friday so transport will be
> > required - can any drivers with a car capable of taking 0.25 Tons and 20RU
> > of volume please be on standby
>
> If the hivemind decide these are good for ebaying/the space (I'd think
> they were) then I've got a ZipCar membership and can get a van to move
> the servers. It would need to be after working hours (post ~4pm)
> though. Just let me know
>
> Cheers
>
> Jon
>
>
>

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